Top 20 Movies of 2018
2018 in Film I always try to share my best-of-the-year movie lists before the Oscars air, but this year I was too busy agonizing over the inevitable Best Picture win for Green Book . In any case, 2018 (like 2017 before it) was an eclectic year in film, with plenty of quality to go around across a spectrum of genres. Superhero films continued their reign at the top of the box office, and most were quite good (3 found their way onto my list). Performers like Bradley Cooper, Jonah Hill and Bo Burnham transitioned seamlessly into the director’s chair with bold debut features. Such visionary creators as Spike Lee, Ryan Coogler and Barry Jenkins continued to provoke with their thoughtful explorations of race and class in America and beyond. Sure, certain big budget blockbusters failed to meet critical or financial expectations ( Solo, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, A Wrinkle in Time, Crimes of Grindelwald, The Cloverfield Paradox ), and the awards industry seems to have gone completely in...